District Names 3 Outstanding Guidance Counselors

June 22, 1986|By Elaine Bennett

Last year, a Teague Middle School guidance counselor described an award winning counselor.

His definition was given while congratulating another Teague counselor, Rogert T. Pinholster, who was selected as Florida's Middle School Counselor of the Year by the Florida School Counselor Association.

In his description, Tom Johnston said, ''One of the true signs of an award- winning counselor is one who not only strives in his or her own back yard to improve, but lends his or her skills and energies to help others in their efforts to improve.''

Little did Johnston know at the time that his description of an award- winning counselor was how he was being characterized by his peers. Johnston and two other Seminole counselors have been selected as the district's guidance counselors of the year for 1985-86.

-- At the recent annual Dividend school volunteer reception, Woodlands Elementary School volunteer Veda Blake was named Dividend of the Year. Other volunteers honored for outstanding service were Milton Boll from Spring Lake Elementary; Doris Curtin from English Estates Elementary; Murph Mooney from Lyman High School; and Billy Sprinkle from Forest City Elementary.

Individual community resource volunteers honored were Richard King for his programs on butterflies and birds; Marion Eggers for miniatures; Jeanne Michael for information on pet care and kites; Michelle McRae, who spoke about native American Indians; and Dell Healy for information on fashion designs and illustration.

Companies honored for allowing representatives to provide programs at schools were Lisa Maile, an image and modeling firm; Families Together, a non- profit organization concerned about drug abuse; Florida Power Corporation; the Seminole County Sheriff's Department and the Division of Blind Services.

-- Certificates of appreciation have been awarded to two Central Florida businesses for providing science education films and material to county schools.

Board members awarded the certificates recently to representatives of Florida Power and Light Co. and Martin Marietta Corp. for their sponsorship of The Science Screen Report, a science series. Florida Power and Light has been a sponsor of the program since 1966, while Martin Marietta became a sponsor in 1980.

The films in the series present the most recent developments in research and technology on topics ranging from the oceans to outer space. A teacher's guide presented with each film provides a vocabulary list, discussion questions and other instructional materials.

-- Richard J. Holder, a member of Lyman High School's Class of 1959, has been appointed to executive director of research, planning and development with Georgia's Fulton County Board of Education. The school system is a suburban district in the Atlanta area, with 40,000 students in 77 schools.

Holder, formerly of Longwood, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Holder Sr., who live in Longwood. He has been a high school teacher in Fulton County since 1967.